Courting the Diamond Sow a Whitewwater Expedition on Tibet's Forbidden River
by Wickliffe W. Walker
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0792279603
- ISBN 13
- 9780792279600
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
National Geographic, 2000 252 pp with 8 color plates. A first-person account of the tragic 1998 attempt to kayak down Tibet'sTsang Po river as it drops off the Tibetan Plateau to the plains of India. A good companion account to Michael McRae's "The Seige of Shangri-La." Text is clean, tight and unmarked, immaculate. Dust jacket is bright and undamaged. #001916. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001916
- Title
- Courting the Diamond Sow a Whitewwater Expedition on Tibet's Forbidden River
- Author
- Wickliffe W. Walker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0792279603
- ISBN 13
- 9780792279600
- Publisher
- National Geographic
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.c., U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2000
- Bookseller catalogs
- Tibet;
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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